Dementia Diagnosis Linked To More Frequent Care Location Transitions

During the first year after diagnosis with dementia, individuals experience multiple transitions in their care locations (changes in a care location for one or more nights.  This increase was primarily due to hospitalizations, but also due to moves to long-term care facilities. For individuals not living in a long-term care facility, transitions were highest in the first year, and in the year before and the year of death. Receipt of recommended dementia care and receipt of high-quality primary care were independently associated with fewer transitions across care settings.

These findings were reported in “Diagnosis and Disruption: Population . . .